Thank you to my early readers: Elizabeth Allen, Rachael Cann, Natalie Conyer, Yvonne Edgren, Cathy Hunt, Isabelle Li, Justine Mill, Mark Riboldi, Katrina Sanders, Ashleigh Synnott, Conrad Walters and Rani Young. Each of you has made this a better book.
Thank you to Elizabeth Allen and Fiona McFarlane for spreading Amelia’s mischievous influence, and to Christine Ratnasingham and Pia van de Zandt for helping me research some delicate plot points.
Thank you to Maumau artists’ residency in Istanbul, where I wrote the initial chapters, and to my fellow residents who inspired me through their artistic practices: Pau Cata, Naz Cuguoǧlu, Emily Robbins, Tazneem Mononoke Wentzel and Bahar Yurukoglu.
Thank you to Jess Cruickshank for her terrific cover design.
Thank you to Patrick Cannon, Penny White, Hilary Rogers, Luna Soo, Marisa Pintado and the rest of the Hardie Grant Egmont team who helped make this book a reality. I am very lucky to work with such a dedicated and talented group of people.
Thank you to the booksellers, the librarians, the festival organisers, the broader #LoveOzYA community, and especially the passionate readers who have embraced my stories. You make the entire process – even the hard bits – worthwhile.
Thank you finally to Emma Kersey, who made writing this book possible and who brings joy to every day.
Erin Gough is a Sydney-based writer whose first novel for young adults, The Flywheel, won the Ampersand Prize. The Flywheel was published in the US as Get it Together, Delilah! and in Germany, and was shortlisted for the CBCA’s Book of the Year for Older Readers and the Centre for Youth Literature’s Gold Inky. Erin’s award-winning short stories have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Best Australian Stories, The Age, Overland, Southerly and Going Down Swinging. Amelia Westlake is her second novel.
Amelia Westlake
first published in 2018 by
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